The Body of the Cross
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-9800-6 (ISBN)
In tracing the story of this embodied development, The Body of the Cross gives special attention to popular spirituality, religious dissent, and the writing of women throughout Christian history. It examines the symbol of the cross as it functions in key moments throughout this history, including the parting of the ways of Judaism and Christianity, the gnostic debates, martyr traditions, and medieval affective devotion and heresy. Finally, in a Reformation era haunted by divine wrath, these themes concentrated in the unique concept that Jesus Christ died on the cross to absorb divine punishment for sin: a holy body and a rejected body in one.
Travis E. Ables (PhD, Vanderbilt) is affiliate faculty at Regis University. He has previously taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Eden Theological Seminary and has served as managing editor of the Anglican Theological Review. He is also the author of Incarnational Realism: Trinity and the Spirit in Augustine and Barth (2013).
Preface | vii
Introduction | 1
1 The Way of Darkness and the Way of Light: The Cross as Boundary Marker in Early Christianity | 15
2 The Body of the Martyr and the Body of Christ | 37
3 The Politics of Holy Bodies and the Invention of the Cross | 57
4 Between Hope and Fear: Monastic Bodies at the Foot of the Cross | 75
5 Bodies Pierced by the Cross: Popular Devotion, Popular Heresy | 101
6 The Bitter Christ and the Sweet Christ: The Cross and the German Reformations | 129
7 Holy Bodies and the Sacrifice of the Self:
Divine Wrath, Discipline, and the Cross in the Reformations | 156
Conclusion | 187
Notes | 199
Bibliography | 235
Index | 251
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.10.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14 b/w illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 152 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8232-9800-0 / 0823298000 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-9800-6 / 9780823298006 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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